Neil Gorsuch

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-to-filibuster-neil-gorsuch-amid-supreme-court-showdown-183625283.html

Quote:In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Monday afternoon, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., became the latest Democrat to say he would vote no on cloture for Gorsuch. “I am not ready to end debate on this,” he said. The Committee voted Gorsuch’s nomination out to the floor Monday afternoon along party lines, with a full vote expected Friday.

Senate precedent requires 60 votes to end a filibuster — an indefinite debate — and proceed to a vote for Supreme Court nominees. That almost always means a judge has to attract some bipartisan support to be confirmed. In 2014, then-Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., lowered the old 60-vote bar for Cabinet nominees and federal judges, after Republicans blocked many of President Barack Obama’s nominees. Now, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is likely to follow suit, and invoke the so-called nuclear option on Supreme Court nominees as well.

I absolutely hate what Congress has become. There was a time not too long ago that if the nominee was free of controversy he or she was nominated regardless if you agreed with their views.

The Dems can point to the GOP's refusal to consider Obama's choice as validation for their actions and now the GOP can point to the Dems lowering the 60 vote rule to validate their actions.